Dark forest settlement haunted by distant horned spirits

masterpiece dark folk-horror doom-metal painting depicting an immense dead woodland surrounding a remote settlement where every tree appears diseased and every path leads deeper into psychological darkness the forest extends endlessly beyond sight millions of twisted trunks crowd the composition dead branches interlock overhead like ribs forming a colossal skeletal vault the ground is buried beneath centuries of black leaves, rotting vegetation, fungal growth, stagnant water, and decaying roots villagers gather silently among abandoned carts, weathered fences, and collapsing structures their faces marked by exhaustion and inherited fear throughout the woodland wander strange horned entities resembling forgotten pagan spirits their forms elongated and partially dissolved into fog, bark, shadow, and darkness they never approach they never leave the density of environmental detail should feel overwhelming every corner of the image filled with texture, decay, depth, and unease style: painterly doom-metal masterpiece, dark surreal folk horror, atmospheric environmental fine art dominant palette: blackened sepia graphite grey dead olive smoked plum aged iron ash-white fog tone: generational fear ritual melancholy oppressive wilderness slow dread